Clinical School Refurbishment – Medical Library temporary relocation: July 2016-May 2017

There will be some significant changes to the Medical Library over the course of 2016 and 2017.

These are driven by changes to the undergraduate course of the Clinical School. From 2017 there will be an increase in student numbers each year for 3 years. The resulting c260 (instead of c160) students per year require additional teaching space. The Clinical School building is undergoing significant refurbishment, July 2016-May 2017, to improve the teaching facilities.

This refurbishment will require the whole building to be vacated.

The Medical Library will be relocated into a temporary location during this time.
This will unfortunately mean a reduced service in some respects, but we will do our best to maintain our standards.

Where?

The Medical Library will running a reduced service from Bay 13 – part of the old MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

When?

The Library will be relocating during the weekend of 15th/16th/17th July 2016. We apologise for the inevitable disruption at this time. More details of the arrangements for the relocation will be shared as soon as possible.

Services will be running from Monday, 18th July, 2016.

What’s different? What’s new? What stays the same?

What’s different? The Library will be 2 rooms, opening for the same hours

– quiet study room with access to PCs, wifi, printer and NHS computers;

– library with small core collection, and library staff to facilitate borrowing/returns etc;

– opening hours remain Mon-Fri 08:00-21:50, Sat 09:00-16:50

What’s different? We will be offering a fetching service for books

Because the book collection will not be relocated, we will be running a fetching service to supply you with the books you need.

This will operate every weekday. If you put in your requests by 9am, your book(s) should be available to collect by 12 noon.

Details of how to place requests will be made available shortly.

What stays the same? Opening hours

The library and study room will be open the same hours as currently: Mon-Fri 08:00-21:50, Sat 09:00-16:50

What stays the same? Training and support

While our training sessions are more likely to happen either in a room in the hospital, your department, or as a one-to-one, we are still able to deliver sessions on literature searching, critical appraisal, keeping up to date and reference management. Look out for additional online training resources, and also remember we can do literature searches for you (clinical staff only).

Keep an eye on the resources to “teach yourself” too.

What stays the same? Document delivery

For those times when we don’t have the article you need either by University access or via NHS ATHENS, we can order it for you. Full details available.

What stays the same? We’re still here to help

Phone (01223 336750) or email us if you want to renew your loans, check availability of a book or article, etc. We’re very happy to help.

Clinical School Refurbishment – Medical Library temporary relocation: July 2016-May 2017

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